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Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta
Novosti
also: News and Stock Exchange Gazette
A real St. Petersburg daily newspaper (founded 1872, edited by Osip Notovich), notorious by the early 1880s for sensationalism and murky financing -- the direct target of this squib's mock subscription notice.
Reading notes
- Pictures from the Recent Past §73 Novosti
Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta ("Novosti"), a St. Petersburg daily, joins the list of outside papers whose Skopin correspondence never arrives -- the accumulation of examples turning what might be one lost letter into an evident pattern of censorship.
- Subscriptions Now Open for 1882 §2 ``NOVOSTI I BIRZHEVAYA GAZETA''
A real, well-known St. Petersburg daily (founded 1872, publisher-editor Osip Notovich), a byword in the 1880s for commercial sensationalism and shady financing -- exactly the target of Chekhov's parody.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 7–8 September 1887. Moscow. §8 "Novosti"
"Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta" (News and Stock Exchange Gazette), a St. Petersburg daily; Chekhov asks whether a review or press copy of his new book had been sent there.
- To an unidentified recipient, 11 December 1888. Petersburg. §2 "Novosti"
The Petersburg daily "Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta" ("News and Stock Exchange Gazette"), here invoked purely as one item on a list of absurd hypothetical fates for the fictitious "Bobchinsky" -- going to work for a rival paper is bracketed with dying and marrying a witch as an equally unlikely catastrophe -- not a substantive reference to Chekhov's actual publishing plans.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 3 January 1889. Moscow. §10 "Novosti"
DISAMBIGUATION: "Novosti" here is short for "Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta", a rival St. Petersburg daily newspaper, edited by Osip Notovich -- NOT Suvorin's own paper "Novoye Vremya". Chekhov's jab at its declining circulation, and his mock demand for 15,000 roubles "compensation" for not competing with it himself, target this distinct competitor paper; the two "News"-adjacent Petersburg dailies (Novosti and Novoye Vremya) should not be confused with each other in this corpus.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 13 October 1891. Moscow. §9 Novosti is not on good terms with Russkiye Vedomosti
Novosti (properly "Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta"), the Petersburg daily also named in Suvorin's original list of prospective participants; Chekhov notes a standing friction between it and Russkiye Vedomosti that makes approaching it for cooperation on the Sbornik awkward.
- To S. N. Filippov, 2 February 1890. Petersburg. §6 "Novosti"
"Novosti" here is short for \emph{Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta}, a rival Petersburg daily to Suvorin's own \emph{Novoye Vremya} -- the paper Chekhov's patron edited and where Chekhov himself published most of his own journalism at this date. Filippov had apparently asked Suvorin's permission before writing a public reply to something in a competing paper; Suvorin's brusque answer ("just go ahead and write it... why ask?") reads as impatience with Filippov's excess of professional deference toward him, not any special interest in \emph{Novosti} itself.